The Sun. — London, England, 1838-10-08 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The article in the Spectator of yesterday, entitled " The Irith Policy," is curious, and the object of the writer is a bold one. He undertakes to show that Ireland labours under a great mistake in looking upon a Tory restoration with alarm, and in support of this position he endeavours to prove that the Tories could not, it' they would, pursue a high Orange policy in that country. In brief. the Specta tor's project is to Tory-Radicalise the Irish people. The only similar attempt that has hitherto been made was, if our memory is correct, in an address of Sir William Molesworth to the Reformers of Leeds, last November. Our Contemporary goes to work cautiously. He tells us at thy outset of hie argument that he is " assuredly not disposed to anticipate benefit to Ireland from the re-esta blished dominion of the Tories over it !" The candour of this admission does the Spectator immense credit. The same caution pervades the whole article. A little further on we are gravely told that, in case the Tories should re sume the Government, "it is probable that the soothing system would be adopted, and that there would he no • fuslilades' of the peasanty." Probably there would be no " fusillades" of the peasantry ! Excessively inviting I We proceed to give the substance of the Spectator's reasonings in his own words : " It becomes a consideration of importance what mischiefs the Tories are likely to perpetrate in Ireland ; for we are as suredly not disposed to anticipate benefit to that country from their re-established d o minion over it. Oh,' say the - Whigs and 0 1 Coanallites, ' the Tories will attempt to revive slaver) ; we shall have the infernal Orange system again forced upon us.' Let it be granted that the Tories have the inclination imputed to them—have they the means of indulgence? Are they so much more powerful now than in 1829, or the Irish means of resistance so much impaired, that the Tories would venture to set a whole people at defiance ? His Wellington grown a furious bigot and dotard, or Peel gained rashness with years, that either or both would in 1838 provoke a contest which they shrunk from, when their opponents were less nu merous, in 1829? That the Tory leaders have no such insane schemes may be concluded from the whole tenour of their recent policy." The argument here, as we apprehend it, is briefly this : the inclination of the Tories to resist the popular demands would be as strong as ever, but they would nevertheless act again ss they did in 1829, and yield to agitation whet they had denied to the voice of reason and justice. In the words of a reverend orator at the late anti-Catholic meeting at Manchester, the Conservative leaders would again " betray" their party ; " the pilot who weathered the storm," meaning Sir Robert Peel, " would once more "treacherously open the floodgates," and let in some fur ther ruin upon the Church and the Consti,ution. Mo,t firmly do we believe that this would be the event, and diet belief is the ground of one of the most insurmountable objections we see to the return of Tory Statesmen to office. It is not because we think a Tory Minister would "set the people of Ireland at defiance" upon the Municipal Reform question, for example, that we regard such a Ministry with apprehension, but precisely for the opposite reason. We know that such a Ministry would concede that measure in the very broadest form in which the roar of Irish agi tation could demand it, and we know all the vast and cureless et' leellef occasioned by the concessions of even the best measures, by a Government opposed to them in spirit and in principle, and sullenly surrendering only be cause resistance is beyond its power. We do not desire !o see the moat unconstitutional, the most unprincipled, tl.e most dangerous game of 1829 played a second time. That game is not to be played twice, with safety to the kingdom —with safety to public character—with safety to the foun dations of civil government. For the sake of Ireland her self, we should most strongly deprecate the amplest redress of her grievances by men who never di 1, and never can, redress a public wrong, without exalting the demagogue, and degrading both the Parliament and the Crown. A heavier disaster could scarcely befal the Irish people than a second victory, like Emancipation, over a malignant but infirm Ministry. " The concessions," says Mr. Burke, with the soundest wisdom, "in which the governing power of our country loses its dignity, are dearly bought even by those who obtain their object." The public will please to recollect that no later than last winter the Times distinctly admitted that its new friends, the Tories, are a party "without any principle of action but obsti nacy when strong, and flight when feeble." The mea sure of Municipal Reform is, probably, the very poorest concession which the united outcry of a population of eight millions, so well accustomed to agitate as the Irish, would be certain to extort from a party of such a character. The Tories might perhaps make a stand against a repeal asso ciation; but we firmly believe that repeal is the only ques tion upon which anything like a stand would be made by them. We trust, however, we shall never again see the rights of Irishmen established by the reluctant hands of their bitter and prescriptive enemies. The party now in power is the only one which can concede just demands with honour, and resist unjust ones with effect. The Spectator goes on to say— " It is sufficient to refer to the conduct of Sir Robert Peel and his confidential supporters, on and since the dismissal of the first Melbourne Ministry, to understand that the coercion and irritation of Ireland enter not into their plans. It is true that some Orangemen were put into subordinate offices by Sr Robert Peel, but not with the good-will and entire approbation of the Tory Premier. His inclination was manifested by his first act towards forming an Administration—the application to Lord c anley (between whom and the Whigs, now that the former has carried his point on the Church question, there is no dcacernible difference in principle) to join him in a mixed Cabinet. He sent Lord Haddington, certainly not a Noble: man of the Roden school, to Dublin; fiery Mr. Shaw became meek and courteous; and the Ministry patronised the new plan of education for Ireland." The Irish readers of the Spectator will have cracked their sides with laughter before they reach the end of this passage. It is not to guard Irishmen against delusion that we notice the article before us. Upon them it will produce about as much effect as the arguments of the Genius of Suicide do upon Baron Grog-wig, in Nicholas Nickleby. If Sir Robert Peel must govern in Ireland with Orange in struments, it matters not a straw what his private wishes may be upon the subject. It may be very true that it was not with " the good-will and approbation" of so prudent a man as Sir Robert that men like Colonel Perceval, with Orange ribbons in their hats and purple sashes round their waists, were taken into the Administration of 1834, but the fact that they were so taken into office is quite enough for the public ; and unless the Spectator can show that the same thing would not be done again, were a Tory Ministry to be formed, it is utterly idle to talk of Sir Robert Peel's inclinations. Indeed the circumstance, that, with all Sir Robert's influence with his party, and notwithstanding his being, as is alleged, personally opposed to the ap pointment of men of extreme Tory politics, he was nevertheless compelled to take into office a man like Colo nel Perceval, a Grand Master of an Orange Lodge, proves in the strongest and clearest manner the weight of the Orange section of the Tory party, and the impossibility of establishing a mitigated system of Toryism in Ireland. The Spectator produces the strangest proofs of the good dispo sitions towards Ireland, for which he wishes to obtain credit for the Tory leader. The first act of his Adminis tration in 1834 was to apply to Lord Stanley to join him ! Can the Spectator be ignorant that there does not exist a Tory upon the Opposition benches so thoroughly detested in Ireland as Lord Stanley ? Can the Spectator be ignorant that Sir Robert Peel him self is popular in Ireland compared with Lord Stanley, to seek a parallel for whose character and estimation in that country we must go back to the days of Strafford, whom his Lordship resembled as closely in insolent assumption and despotic principles and measures, as he fell im measurably beneath him in intellectual grasp and stature I Yet the Spectator boasts that Sir Robert Peel, in 1834, solicited Lord Stanley to join him ; and this is the way he baits the hook with which he expects to catch the Irish! But our Tory- Radical angler has another fly upon his line. "He sent Lord Haddington ' certainly not a noblem an o f th e R o d en school, to Dublin!" Kind Sir Robert Peel ! Good Sir Robert Peel! If Sir Robert would only promise to send Lord Haddington back to Dublin, who knows but the Irish would cry—" Hurrah for a Tory Ministry !" We know not what the Spectator means by the Roden school, but we believe Lord Haddington is as staunch a Tory as Lord Roden, and we have not forgotten (although the , Tories and Tory-Radicals may) that on the first night of Lord Haddington's arrival in Ireland the oriflamme of Orangeism and standard of civil discord waved over his vice-regal head in the royal box of the Dublin theatre. It may be very true that " the maintenance of the old Orange system i s impossible ;" but is this a reason why we should give the foe an opportunity to endeavour to revive it? We cannot see the force of the Spectator's reasoning. Are We not to guard against the attempt to re t - blish Orange ism, because it is unlikely that such an attempt would be successful ? Would the Spectator say that we should open our doors to a gang of robbers, upon we may possibly, or even probably, the calculation that overpower them after their admission ? 'The Spectator does not pretend that the Orange section of the Tory party has been in the least reformed orlema,iiteirgsatdeids.likeAltlhhaet asks us to believe is , that the y section, and would keep it in Ifi contsro4ul:Mr. enNisVethkenoswp,echtao t w o; ever, that they did not do so in 8 haw ha b t ecr , m fle in r g y himself seemowledges. As to meek and courteous," it is very little ery matter .S w fi Mr. Shea" becomes, or what becomes ffpa;onerisyedl‘tihre. Shaw." But C.Z7 Robert Peel's Ministry ne w plan of education for Ireland." They did so most truly, end would patronise it, we very well know, again to morrow, were tl restored to office, notwithstanding that the Biiele has mutilated so atrociously, and notwitb stando that one of the Commissioners is a Popish Arch bishop, and thatthe rest of the Board have been charged one thousand times by Tory orators, divines, and Journalists, - - with the politics of Ribespierre and the religion of Paine. At the same time it is utterly impossible that a system of n,tional education can be efficiently conducted under the auspices of a party of ,hose genuine hostility to it there can be no question ; and we therefore see in this last reason for opening the doors of office to the Tories only an additional argument for continuing to keep them out. The Spectator I , roceeds to ask " What have been the Tory tactics" since the commencement of the pre. sent reign? And he tells us, most unluckily for his argu ment, that the death et William IV. brought a change, not of object, but of tone and manner !" The Tories he further says, " assumed a virtue !" Admirable reasons for readmit tiog them to power ; we trust they will convince the Irish. The following need only be quoted, and with the quotation of it we shall conclude our reinarks, and leave the matter to the merry consideration of our readers— " Caution has been the order of the day. The fault of of fending any large portion of the people was to be avoided. Lot d Lyndhurst, in 1833, would have let his tongue be blis tered before it repeated the ' alien' insult of 1836. The pur pose of his virulence had been accomplished, and he changed his note. The plan was laid for a lengthened and compara tively tranquil possession of power ; which policy is totally at variance with aggr,•siion upon the Irish population. On the , contrary. it is probable that the soothing system will be adopted —no fusillades of the peasantry, but multifarious bribes ;:anii , nistered to tb• ler.ders.'--Morning Chronicle. _ _ . A Sunday paper of yesterday, whose frequent office is to announce, in its own vague and slobbering fashion, the intentions of the Cupid Cabinet, or rather the speculative guesses of those wiseacres as to what their intentions on certain assumed contingencies will be, contains a curt and meagre article, professing to expound not merely the direct relations between the Porte and Mehemet Ali, but the possible effect of those relations " upon European politics." The Downing-street interpreter then goes on with such his exposition, and, to begin from the beginning, makes known the particularly novel fact, that " some time since the Viceroy of Egypt intimated to the Consuls of the great Powers his intention to d' Clare himself independent of the Porte." But, proceeds the sage, " Mehemet Ali did net express this as his positive determination, but rather as a feeler, to ascertain the sentiments of the Consuls as to the course of policy 'Alicia their respective Governments would pursue in such an event. The result was an assur ance that the great European Powers would not counte nance his breach of allegiance, and that, should he proceed to enforce it, the great Purgers would take the part of the Sovereign against his rebel Pasha. It scon became appa rent to the Pasha that he could not even reckon on the neutrality of the European Powers, and we have not re cently heard of any fresh indication of rebellion on his part." So much fur the tele; now for the more!. " Dis regarding altogether the elaborate nonsense which week after week makes its appearance in the German Journals, let us for a moment consider what would be the effect of our neutrality in such a contest. The Sultan would hare assistance from Russia : Russia would proclaim itself the sole :avianr of the Porte ; and a second and more exacting edition of the trees, of Unkiar 'Skelessi would be the inevitable result : a, it is, the integrity of the Turkish empire dill be preserved, and the ravenous policy of the Muscovite, for the present at least, he disappointed." These. remarks up >n the certain conse quences of British neutrality while the Porte was maintain ing an uaequal struggle with its own rebellious vassal, are just and sound, ever. though fresh from the anvil of Lord Pal merston. The only wonder is (or would be, if the Foreign Secretary had one partic:e of shame left in him) how they come at so late an hour to be put forth by that Noble Lord. If the danger to the integrity of the Turkish empire on the one side, or to its independence of Russia on the other, both arising from an aggression by Mehemet Ali, be so ob vious a motive for the seasonable interference of Great Britain now, to save the Porte from falling still deeper into the gulf prepared for her by the " ravenous policy" of Russia, did not the same danger exist in the year 1833, when Ibrahim Pasha was almost on the shores of the Bosphorus, and when, through the contemptible in action of the naval force of England, and the criminal de sertion of its duty by our Foreign Department, the Sultan was absolutely s uffered—n - Iy, forced—to fling himself into the arms of Russia, and "to sign a treaty the most humi liating and disastrous for this country, whereby, for the first time in history, the British flag was to be excluded from the navigation of the Euxine—that is to say, admitted only at the will and pleasure of Russia, her inveterate enemy in the East. We repeat, that an event so dis graceful and calamitous as the Treaty of Unkiar 'She lessi, never befel the commercial interest of Great Bri tain since she became a maritime power. The head of the Department—nay, the whole Cabinet, whose feeble and ignominious policy produced that catastrophe, well deserved to be impeached by Parliament and punished, and would have been so under any condition of things but one, wherein the base faction which decided the numeri cal majority consisted of a herd of slaves to an adven turer, himself devoid of every spark of English pride or ho nour. When the Lord Palmerston, who now talks such edifying truisms upon the necessity of taking an active part in the support of Mahmoud against his rebel Pasha, was in the years 1833-4 called to account in Parliament for his imbecile surrender of the Protectorship, which ought to have been exercised by England over Turkey, into the hands of Russia, what was the acknowledgment, the pitiful acknowledgment, by which this mean Minister attempted to excuse himself and his colleagues ? Why, indeed, that because they had a squadron of some four sail of the line, kept near home for the honourable purpose of coercing Holland into an acquiescence in French and Belgic schemes, we could not afford an effective demonstration of force for the defence of Turkey, our most important ally. Yes, Lord Palmerston left it on record that the marine of England had been so scandalously reduced under the administration of himself and his brethren, at the obstreperous and bothering impor tunities of that meddling blockhead Mr. Joseph Hume, as to render the service of even four men-of-war at the mouth of the Scheldt an efficient obstacle to the maintenance of eight or ten more within the Mediterranean waters. Is it on a Minister capable of thus abandoning the nation's interests at a crisis so perilous as occurred in 1833, and on grounds so utterly disgraceful, that we can rely for any vigorous or honest course of policy to extricate the empire with wisdom or dignity from the more awful embarrass ments now impending ?—Tintes. With nations, as with individuals, there is no error of a more dangerous character than that of allowing present and immediate interests to engross all attention from the future and remote. Let us be careful, therefore, while watching and sharing in the struggles which now agi tate our internal social fabric, not to overlook or disregard the dangers accumulating around our external relations ; for not less on the result of the conflict without, or in the more distant dependencies, than on that of the struggle within, depend the prosperity, greatness, and stability of the British empire. Of all the external dangers by which the interests of Great Britain are menaced, the proceed ings and designs of Russia are those calculated to ex cite the most fearful apprehension. Compared with these, the detached conflicts of States, principles, and par ties, sink into comparative insignificance. Their isolated successes produce merely local and temporary results, but it is through Russia that the great questions of liberty and civilization must be ultimately solved. Though of this fact all parties appear thoroughly convinced, yet with an indifference unaccountable the British public have never directed to it a fixed and enduring attention. Occasionally, when Russia commits s ;me flagrant violation of the rights of nations, a temporary excitement is manifested, but again subsides, ineffectively leaving redress and reparation still unexacted. Such was the case when Poland fell a victim to the spoiler—such also was the case when the tyrant trio, Russia, Austria, and Prussia, annihilated the independence of Cracow—the same when Turkey, coerced by open force, and enmeshed by tr, aciicry, was left hound until a favour able opportunity to complete the sacrifice ; the same transi tory ebullition of feeling is now manifested while the free and brave Circassians are heroically struggling against their barbarous invaders ; and, with shame be it spoken, even when the law of nations was violated in regard to England herself, when the property of her citizens was first seized, and then ber commerce audaciously and insulting!. an forbidden from t h e coast of independent people anxious to trade with h er , the wr?ngwas not only allowed to pass with impunity, and insulttlie i w n h te o r s e e st d s u a ty bs i o t morelutely labou re d especiallywas left unredressed, but those to tofind g upalreda pleas to honour instify and foul aggression perpetrated a o g r ai t n h s e t both. This, it may be s o he r u e stu t t h i f e et f th a se u t thatpubli B r i tish . Minister than othfethaeetspltchewerheavtno doneevmc e . n one -half of infinitely less moment, 113 Minist e r dare dare remain passive inflicted e as d R u w s s i e i t a . the An na a t r i t o i n nle t , v while e g thes'n reference to Cir such accumulated cassia, Persia, and India," appears in current number of an Parbury's Oriental H era ld, an d, with intimate know ledge of the affairs of Russia and the East, combines an intellectual acumen and vigour eminently adapted to th e exposure of the subtle and insidious combinations of Rus sian • policy. Did our space permit, we shouldas gladly trans fer the e n ti re art i c l e t o our columns, it traces out in a most clear and concise manner the progress of Russian ag gression, her slow and stealthy encroachments on th e r i g ht s and territori es o f neighbouring States , her utter di s r egar d of all moral obli gat i on, an d the dark unmitigated barbarism which, pervading her ow diffuse through a ll State': whichpos sessions, she endeavours to she can reduce to her dominion, or in whi c h s h e can ex following extract will b e read with h cir any influence. Th e interest from the force and originality with which Russia •is contrasted with other despotic and uncivil: el Statss 4 The very essence of hessian r h • po t e last analyses it is possible to reduce it to, is deepotiam the most hideous ,nation to its limits eau conceiv e . A s t h ere are f ree dom, cevoral phases, and not one of th e republica n de greestheorlyn so has despotism likewise its gradations, and monarchical power its several stages of intensity. The Russian Govern. ment is that which carries the latter to its ultimate bounds. Farther, and despotism cannot go. It comprise• the hypo thesis of all that degradation can accomplish for the species. Tile Turkish and Asiatic despotisms are distinct from this. They extinguish, it is true, the intellectual idea —they de stroy the higher instincts of the soul ; yet the domain of the passions they seem to leave uninvaded ; they do not finally silence the music of the affections. In Turkey, and through out many countries of the further east, the social principle is not unfrequently developed to its perfection. The institutes of Menu, vet admitted, although mankind should not think, they should respond to each other in the sympathies of the heart. In illustration of our opinions we point to the munici pal privileges of Turkey, and the village s y stem of the I'm. doos. In these instances it is at once felt that despotism has left something besides the grossest realizations of physical ap petite, besides those last attributes of the hu.nan name, which link it with that of the beasts that perish. Not to speak of the pristine civilization of the Oriental world, from e h ',we perhaps emerged the splendour that subsequently settled upon Greece and Athens itself, yet in more recent times the annals of the East glow with the evidences of art, and with the traits which elevate and adorn a social system. Even despotism on despotism in India, for example, yet served not utterly to d erase 1 all sentiment of human greatness. T he Mohammedan . ynas tan, although based on the principle of terror, y ties which superseded the original pr incedoms of Hetindus are distinguished by characteristics which suppose some affinity with intellectual power and moral beauty. The Mt“sul. man has his Court of Law—his code, however comparatively circumscribed, of criminal and civil justice ; which signifies, if his prince have privileges, he lifts at least certain rights ; if his sovereign have soldiers, there are likewise hu!lanci. men to till the land, to make the earth yield its fruitfulness, whereby in due time the labourer may derive the e molument, which, although destined at length to r each the throne, is, if in some cases, a direct forcible abstraction, or comp aatively a servile tribute, yet is applied in instances as numerous to ob jects of public utility and munificence, which almost redeems the plunder from its crime, and transforms the vicious into the virtuous. But to speak of Russia in alliance with these oei. nions would certainly be a perpetration of the highest satire. An empire of absolute serfs is at least a step lower than a nation whose institutions retain some vestiges of independence --independence which brings with it the arts of life, industry, and a sense of moral obligations. Russia is low, net it, the scale of civilization—but low—at the very nadir of barbarism I In the annals of Europe her existence is a solecism, from the fact of the intensity of her barbarism. Her language is bar barous—her manners are barbarous; she has no recollections —no associations in history but are barbarous; her whole scheme of existence is barbarous; her internal economy and her externel aggressions are barbarous; moreover. she scouts liberty in itself and in its consequences, clings to degradation for love of its ignobility, and would not b • free, although freedom were the triumph of conquest. Of all the indices to an improved state of existence, she is totally destitute. She has no art, no science, no manifestations in any shape of superior insiin• ts. Ad the traces of moral life that pertain to her are derived from foreigners. If she have fleets, it is foreigners who con struct them ; if she have any of the arts and devicee of social existence, she has riot them from herself, but by borrowing; even her agriculture is an ingreft from another syst-tu ; she knew nut how to penetrate to the subterranean triaNtires of of the earth till the civilization of other countries instructed her; and her army—even her army, the instrument by which she has been enabled to fling upon Europe and the world such insolent defiance, and to perpetrate such wrong, such blood-dyed oppression—is officered, not by Russians, not by her native heirs to valour, but by the stranger—by Germans ! In fine, Russia--the very narn , is but a synonyme of barb: rism. Who ever thinks of blending with iny associaton of intellectual glory the name of Russia? Who ever attributes to her moral greatness? Antithetical to ail our stn id ards of human worth, whether in the sphere of the abstruser charac teristics of mind, or in that also of moral sentiments, she is but a blot on the page of civilization, and a blemish in the annals of humanity itself." In commenting upon thie article, the Courier, after ad mitting the extensive information and great ability of the writer, observes with an air of triumph, " If then Russia be so barbarous, and her resources so scattered, what has England to fear from her designs ?" Had the Courier paid alittle more attention to the expositions so ably given of Russian policy, it would have perceived that the writer whom it accuses of being actuated by a partisan spirit does not exaggerate the power of Russia, but points out the danger to be apprehended, not from any " intrinsic strength" of Russia, but from the apathy and pusillanimity of England and Europe. We shall anxiously look to our worthy Contemporary for the continuation of the discussion on this momentous question, and hail with much gratifi cation the assistance of so powerful a coadjutor.— Morning Advertiser. Lord John Russell, as our readers already know, has been recently upon his travels, visiting two distinguished official friends, the Marquis of Normanby, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, and Mr. Rathbone, Mayor of Liverpool, both eminent persons in their several spheres, and the latter, not withstanding that he happens to be at the head of a re formed corporation, a gentleman, we believe, of unimpeached respectability. From all the accounts which have reached us of the Noble Secretary's progress, it seems that at Dublin, Liverpool, and everywhere else, his Lordship has enjoyed, through the kind consideration and profound re spect of the inhabitants, all those advantages and comforts of uninvaded privacy which other great persons are generally compelled to purchase by the assumption of an incognito. Lord John did not go to Dublin or to Liverpool shielded from the intrusive and importunate manifestations of popularity by this artificial protection, and yet it was his singular good fortune to escape alike the fatiguing parade of listening to formal ad dresses frotn constituteibodies, and the distracting annoy ance which the vociferation of applauding multitudes might have occasioned to a Nobleman of his Lordship's aristocratic notions and refined taste. The Noble Lord cannot but be entirely satisfied with the gentlemanlike re serve practised upon this occasion by every c lass of the in habitants both of the Irish and the Lancashire capi tals, no single indivival of whom seems to have o% er stepped the strict rule of good breeding, which pre scribes that one should not know anybody without the preliminary of a special and personal introduction. The Secretary of State for the Home Department must have marked with infinite satisfaction this symp tom of improvement in the manners of his country men. He is the first man of the same official and p ersonal rank who could ever have hoped to enjoy the privilege of walking about the str ee t s o f Li ver p o ol, arm in arm with his Worship the Mayor, without attracting more notice than if he bad been one of his Worship's partners in trade, or one of the clerks of his Worship's counting-house. His Lordship went to the Exchange, too, at the high tide of re sort to this place of universal gathering, and the merchants and traders assembled there in the usual numbers dis played without exception the courtesy and the good sense, the politeness towards Lord John, and the respect towards themselves and the important community to which they be long, to pursue their buying and their selling, their paying, receiving, and balancing, just as if the edifice in which these transactions are carried on had remained unvisited by any stranger. It would be an impeachment of the taste and judgment of the Noble Lord to doubt that he was highly gratified by this striking proof of the march of re finement. Some of our Lancashire as well as our London Contemporaries regard the peculiarity of Lord John Russell's reception whe rev e r h e h as appeared as an indication th at the Noble L or d an d t h e Ad m i n i strat i on o f w hich he is a leading Member h ave b ecome unpo p u l ar . And to say truth the symptoms are rather suspicious. But yet it is not wholly impossible to find another and less disagreeable in terpretation. It occurred, perhaps, to the men of Liverpo o l, t h at, s i nce t h e likings and dislikings of Ministeri a l people have changed in so many other respects, any open display or noisy expression of popular favour might now, for the first time, be unpleasing to them. The solemn L silence and awful gloom which prevailed is herever iti a on p i p s t e teh a r r es e appeared e m hwo a ylias within dispositionb t e h e e n designedlast year yea r presumed as av a e denounced all further organic changes of the Constitution —have settled the question of Irish tithe without appro priation—have given an arrogant and presumptuous des pot to Canada—and have manifested their . willingness to submit in all matters of permanent " legislation to the t House of Lords.— Horning Post. iy attention thoseßusselA,l COLBURN'S NSW MONTHLY MAGAZINE AND HUMOURIST FOR OCTOBER.—In one of Sir Walter Seott's letters, we find him speaking thus of the Editor of this Ma gazine—" Theodore Hook's writings," h e ptys, " are as full of life and merriment as ever." This remark, however at sly applied then, holds good even now, if we are to judge from Mr. Hook's production in the " New Monthly." " The Gur ney Papers" for the present month, is one of the witticst articles that have proceeded from the pen of this distinguished humourist. We are here introduced to a new character— Captain Cavendish Lorimer—and the stratagems of the wor thy Rector ( Wells) to entrap him into a marriage with his daughter Fanny (somewhat by the same mode as that by which Gilbert Gurney himself was " disposed of"), are as laughter-exciting as any of the pranks of the facetious Daly, in the first series of these admirable papers. Besides the contributions of Mr. Hook, the Magazine is rich in articles from other able writers; among the principal of which may c lgiers in 1837, giving some piquant sket c h es o f t h e presentl dA — state cf that singular French colony—The P ersona l asse Narrative of Tristram Dumps—The Manacrer's Note B oo k, containing an interesting ac c ount of Madam. iVlara—and Shakspeare's Historical Plays, by the Right Hon. T. P. Courtenay. On Saturday morning, between seven and eight o'clock, James Wright, groom to Mr. Barton, of Great Char lotte-street, was exercising two horses in the New-road, when the horse he was leading, a most vicious animal, started off at full speed, and the unfortunate man having the rein buckled round his wrist, was pulled off his seat and dragged along th e ground a considerable di,tame, until the rH,:n broke, ; ; !;;:11; Tom c ame to his assistance, and conveyed him, i n a airi t o o f insensibility, to Mr. Itio;g, surgeon, who pronounced his case to be very precarious, as he had his wrist fractuied, his shoulder and collar-bone dislocated, and several ribs broken, POLICE INTELLIGENCE -- MARLBOROUGH-STREET. James Timm:, a man dressed like a gentleman's groom, was brought before Mr. CONANT, charged with having sold ate unsound horse to a gentleman named Atkins, son and partner of Alderman Atkins, of Walorotl. Mr. \Vontner, a solicitor, on behalf of the prosecutor, stated that as advertisement appeared some time ago in the tievvs papers for a horse to be sold, answering the description of an animal wanted by Mr. Atkins. Mr. Atkins's groom went to the stables where the horse was, No. 10, Chapel-street, Crown -street, Soho, and saw the prisoner, who described him self as a servant to Mr. Howard, of Ealing, and who stated that the horse belonged to his late master's father, and he had been employed by the widow to sell it. A bargain was struck for forty guineas for the animal, which was warranted sound, and it was further agreed, in case the animal was not approved of within a week, the money was to be returned. It was soon discovered that the horse was not such as drscribed, and on application at the Veterinary Colle, the information was given that the stables at which the animal had been purchased, were well known to them as a place at which un sound horses were put off. As a false pretence had been used, the prisoner having untruly stated that the horse was the property of a lady named Howard, and as all attempts to get back the money proved fruitless, the prisoner had been taken into custody. Mr. CONANT could not see that the prisoner had used such a false pretence as made him amenable to the criminal law. It was true he had stated a number of filseboods, in order to effect the sale of the horse, but they did not constitute a le gal false pretence. The prisoner was in the service of a gentleman, named Howard, and the receipt which had been given bad ot, n signed by his master. Mr. CONANT-Where is this master of yours to be found ? Pt: loner—'Pon my verd and honour I can't tell. He lives with a vooman somevhere, and I never secs him for vceks together, and I never knowed vot his address vos. Mr. CONANT t o ld Mr. Atkins that he could not detain the prisoner on the charge of obtaining - money under false pre tences. The only remedy Mr. Atkins had was by civil action. Mr. Atkins came forward on public grounds, and should certainly bring an action for the am,unt against the prisoner. The prisoner was then liberated. QUEEN- S Q UA RE. Patrick Cronin, an Irishman, was charged with assaulting Norah, his wife, and breaking her arm. The complainant said that her husband, on coming home drunk, struck her on her arm, and broke it. She ♦ery volubly entered into a long history of grievances, and abused her husband soundly. The defendant told a different story, in which he was borne out by the testimony of his master and other witnesses. His wife, by whom he had four children, had got amongst a worthless set of females, with whom she was always drinking ; and to supply her propensity to liquor she had pawned and sold all his and his children's clothes, leaving them starving and naked. Coming home on the night of the accident, he heard the chil d• en crying for food, and saw his wife drunk. He did strike her. and she fell, in doing which she broke her arm. The Magistrates recommended that they should separate, which th t defendant readily assented to, taking the three elder children, and making his wife an allowance for her and the infant. UNION-HALL, Thomas Blankiron, a T4ie;Semooger, of Star-corner, Bei.- mond.,:ey, was charged with a violent assault on his wife, and with setting fire to a large quantity of wearing apparel be. longing to her. A police sergeant hearing calls of murder from the defend ant's house, entered it, and found him in the hands of some friends, who were holding him to restrain him from attacking his wife, whom be had been cruelly ill-using. The wife per suaded the officer to leave the premises, stating the excite ment would soon be over ; but he hid scarcely got to the other side of the street when he saw a great blaze in the first floor, and on again entering the house he found the prisoner bad kindled a fire in the middle of the floor with his wife's &ems, and he took him into custody and conveyed him to the Station-house. Mrs. Blankiron said that her husband was intoxicated, and bad beaten her, and triad to cut off her pockets because she refused him money to get more drink. In his defence the defendant pleaded intoxication, and his wife interceded with the Bench most earnestly in his behalf. The Magistrates ordered him to find bail to answer the charge at the Sessions. LAMBETH-STREET. George Chapel, W1;o stands committed with the Fletchers on several charges of robbery to a large amount at the St. Ka thdrine's Steam-packet Wharf, was placed at the bar charg , d with being a principal member of a gang of swindlers, who have lately taken shops at Uxbridge and at Woolwich, where they succeed .d in defrauding various tradesmen and manufac turers of goods to a considerable amount. Lee, the officer, stated that the prisoner was connected with two men now in custody, named Henry Thompson and John Davis, alias Timmins, and that the prisoner himself had been ordering goods at several places giving the name of Tim mins, two persons being then present to whom he bad given that name. A hat-silk manufacturer, in Pearl-street, Finsbury, proved that the prisoner obtained three pounds' worth of hat-silk as a sample to show to a friend, and which he would return with an order for a large quantity if it were approved of. He gave his name '• Timmins." _ _ . Mr. Leukin, cap-maker, of Creed-lane, City, purchased the silk from the prisoner, and executed a large order for caps, which he desired to be sent to Mr. John Davis, Woolwich. He was never paid by the prisoner. Messrs. Fosters, of Wig more-street, Cavendish-square, supplied 301. of feathers and artificial flowers to Chapel's order, but never received penny from him. Part of this property was in the hands of the Uxbridge constables. Per sons from many other hOuses, which had been extensively plundered by the prisoner, were present, but the Magistrate did not think it necessary to go into the charges, as the prisoner was fully committed for trial on several more serious charges. Mr. COMBS refused permission to the Uxbridge constable to take the prisoner to that town for examination, as he could receive a copy of the depositions against him. The prisoner was then removed from the bar. The principal reason for not sending Chapel down to Ux bridge was his having formed a plan with those associated with him toeff.ct an escapt, which having been overheard by a fel low-prisoner, was communicated to the gaoler, who took steps , ~ to frustr a t e their plans. Midgley, the brother-in-law of Miers, the incendiary, and who is now admitted as an approver in the case of the Fletchers, was asked by Chapel to take the management of a draper's shop, as he understood well how to make up dummies. THAMES-OFFICE. Thomas Brown was charged on an information with con cealing and conveying away 4,436 ells of French blond lace, of the value of 1431., which had not paid the duty, and by which he had incurred the penalty of 429/. The prisoner, formerly conductor of a Blackwell omnibus, and supposed to be connected with a foreign steam vessel. was observed by the Custom-house officer on duty walking from the river side near the West India-docks with a camlet cloak over his arm. The officer, suspecting that it concealed smuggled goods, stopped the man, and taking the cloak found it contained 70 cards of lace sewed in between the camlet and the lining. The Magistrates sentenced the defendant to pay a mitigated penalty of 2141., which, together with the loss of the lace, makes 3571. The prisoner was committed to prison until the fine be paid. Brown is said to be in the employ of a large foreign lace dealer in the metropolis. SYMPTOMS OF AN EARLY WINTER.—A re markably fine woodcock was shot by the gamekeeper at Apley Park, on Tuesday. the 25th ult.—Kidderminster Messenger. BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, SEPT. 28,—We hardly know bow to describe accurately the state of our sugar market at present. Notwithstanding heavy arrivals during the month, and a full stock (according to the usual compa rison), the show of samples is inadequate to meet the dispo. sition to purchase, which appears to have been excited by the advance that has taken place in London of Is. per cwt. in consequence of the extension of the period for the payment of the full bounty on refined. Immediately any thing of this kind occurs we feel most prejudicially the effects of our limited import. The control of the market being in few hands, they have it in their power, on every occasion of a little competi tion among the buyers, artificially, for a time, to raise prices above the natural level; and this continues, until an appre hension of a decline, or a suspension of business, from being above other markets, causes a re-action. This is the general history of the Bristol sugar market, as will be attested by the experience of every man connected with it, and it has hdrdly ever been more strikingly illustrated than in the present in stance : already above London, to an extent that has driven some of our most respectable houses to make very large pur chases there, which they have been enabled to bring down to Bristol and obtain a good profit upon ; yet the advance there has been trebled here, simply because it wss catch who car, in a bare, monopolised market. We know no remedy, until such period as our import is doubled, except the buyers are w illing, one and all, to submit to a po‘sible inconvenience in one shape, rather than precipitate it positively in another ; until, in fact, they will, in good faith, bear a temporary sus pension of trade, because they won't buy, in preference to be ing reduce Mi r t h same alternative because they cannot sell. —Bristol cury. ROYAL BOTANIC SOCIETY OF LONDON.--We observe that the design for establishing .a Botanic Soci e ty i n L o ndon has, at length, assumed a promising form. Her ty Ma- i ‘st has consented to become its patroness; aod distin "yuished list of vice-patronesses, vice patrons, vice-presidents, distin guished proposed fellows, is in circulation, with his G race t h e Duke of R i c hmond at their head a; president. The ground selected is the space included in the inner circle of the Re gent's Park. consisting of eighteen acres ; which is to h e dig - Po sed in imitwion of the gardi us e,f diffFrent countries Con servatories, lawns, terraces, parterres, statues. fountains, Ste_ g o ., are also promised-_a lhke .. tor aquatic plants, and ar tifi fi c i a l rocks for the productions of mountain regions. The sci entific arrang , snents are to embrace th e natural and artificial systems ; a nd the formation of a med ico -b otan i cal division is contem plated. A library and museum are also among the in ducements held out to subscrib ers , t h e l owest class of whom are to pay five guineas entrance and two gu i neas per annum. Several materspropounded i n t hi s scheme ought to have been accomplished by the H ort i cu l tural Society, and some of its o bj,,ets, perhaps, by . the Medico-Botani:.ar Society ; but stir .an Institution is a deciard desideratum for the ea i pitai ; and we trust t . will be carr ied i nto effect with spirit and intelligence.--Literary Gazette. NOVEL TERMINATION OF PAVING OF OXFORD-STREET, BY AN UNA NIMOUS VOTE. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE (From the [Ampshire Telegraph.) PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 6.—Report sends the Actaeon to South On Saturday the Marylebone Vestry was specially suni. I America. monad, for the purpose of confi rmin g or non-confirmin g Mr. I The Pilot, 16, Commander Ramsey ,and the Modesto, 18, Kensett's motion to re-pave Ox ford-street from Tottenham- I Commander Eyres, arc to proceed on a ten days' cruise, from I court-road to Charles-street. Mr. A. Daniell in the chair. Plymouth, to try their respective rite of sailing. Previous to the introduction of the subject a deputation of . The Royal George Yacht, in this harbour, is to proceed to rate-payers waited upon the Vestry , for the p urpose of pre- the Mediterranean in February next, to attend upon Queer' I tenting a petition signed by:between 400 and 500 of the pa- Adelaide, and return, it is understood: with her Majesty to rishioners resident in the various districts of the parish, pray- I England. The Hastings, upo n w hich ing the Vestry, in justice to the great body of the rate-payers, I was to be bestowed, is to oe made effective after bar Majesty to forthwith re-pave the whole of Oxford-street. . has disembarked at Malta, and to remaiu on the Mediterraneaa Mr. WALL, one of the deputation, in presenting the peti- etation. tion, observed that it had been got up in an incredibly short The Clio was paid off on Tuesday, on which occasion the space of time, hearing that the Vestry was only going to do officers of that vsssel unanimously resolved to mark 'their esteem the thing by halves in paving up to Charles - s treet, which he and regard for their worthy first Lieutenant, Francis Thomas was sure the majotity of the rate-payers were averse to. Brewn, by giving him a parti,:g dinner at the Fountain Hotel. With regard to the wood, or bitumen pavement , the feeline lie was universall beloved and respected for his forbearance , out of doors was most strongly in opposition. They (thee gentlemaaly and officer-like conduct on all occasions (many of p etitioners) therefore hoped the Vestry would pay attention them trsing ones), and he caries with him, without ever hay to the interests of 11,700 people in preference to 400 or 500. the Risked to court popularity, the best end warmest wishes of Mr. Jewesses; wished to ask the deputation if this petition every officer and man who served in the Clio, where they bad was agreed to at a public meeting? many opportunities of knowing his value and worth. Officers Mr. WALL said that it had originated with a few friends to have seldom been more united among themselves, parochial economy, and by their exertions it had been signed. occasion one feeling alone prevailed. Mr. Boer.e, another of the deputation, said he had no The Cornwallis, 74, was at Halifax on the 7th ult,, and was doubt, if there had been more time, they could have got it to proceed to Bermada about the middle of the present month. signed by at least six or seven times the present number. The Imaum, 74, was taken out of, and the Sapphire taken The parishioners, as well as the public, were tired with the into, dock this day. bickerings upon this subject, and it had become the impres- The Gilmore convict ship sailed yesterday for Van Diensen's sion out of doors that not they, but the inhabitants of Ox- Land. and on this ford-street, were the Vestry.—( Laughter, and cries of The Commander in-Chief sailed yesterday for Plymouth, Order.") in the Fanny tender, and his flag was struck on board the Brie. Major NAYLOR—Pray, Sir, did you apply to any of the in- tannia at sunset. habitants of Oxford-street to sign your petition? A line-of battle ship is ordered to be brought forward for Mr. BOYLE—Oh no, Sir, we deemed that course to be quite commission at each of the ports, At this port the Gang her" " unnecessary.—( Roars of laughter.) well as the feelowie g shi p s—Daphne, Magicienne, Sapphi Mr. Wreeteets — Pray , gentlemen , when you a g reed to this and Cameleon, of which the Ganges and Sapphire w ill be first petition, did you take into consideration the injury that would ready Harbour—Britannia, Victory, Excellent, Roya l Georges result to the inhabitants of Oxford - street by re - pa vin g ? In Mr. WALL said they had well weighed and considered the Racer, and Messenger steamer. subject, and thought no inconvenience or prejudice to trade At Spithead—Edinburgh, Pique, Actaeon, Orestes. would be the result. PROMOTIONS AND APP,INTMENTS. Mr. JACKSON wished to ask if the deputation considered it Commanders—T. Gr eene, and George Shepherd Dyer-, a liberal act to destroy the interests of 500 persons, merely Lii•utenants—Caesar C. Pov-ell, Augustus C. Miy, G• N " because it cost them twenty or thirty pence in the co urs e of Winlow, G. H. Symour, C J. 11,1 four, James Fellowcs , " the year, as one penny in the pound in Marylebone would Griffith G. Philippa, to the Cornwallis; Alfred John Pauli raise upwards of 3,0001. to the Wellesley ; R. W S,ekling, and John Fulford, t the Mr. WALL replied, it was not the amount—it was the prin- Princess Charlotte ;A. G. Villiers, to the President; G. C• ciple involved. They did not see why 11,700 should be taxed Randolph to the North Star; John C. Bingham, to the M?; for 500. deste ; Henry G. Shute, and E. Tatham, to the Melville; Nv• A variety of other questions having been put by several C Al , lhain. to the Jasseur ; Elniesley, to the Niagara ; r Testi.) men, and ans sere(' by members of the deputation, the W. llmeiiten. aed Henry Corytons, to the Herald; Frank latter withdrew ; when D , 1!i,,,n, to the Donegal ; Joh:, Clavell, to the Rose ; F. G- M-. JACKSON rose to move that the petition be entered on Bond to command the Forester; C. F. A. Shadwell, and C' the minutes. His reason for doing so was to afford himself an F. Brown, to the Castor ; C. F. Wade, to the Cerysfort ;R• opportunity of showing, from the answers elicite d, the narrow A Oliver, ro the Asi I ; G. Weston, and G. Guyon, to the and contracted views of the parties who had signed it. He Barham ; F. E. Johnstone, to the Tyne ;T. S. Coppingers thought they had taken a harsh and strange course in eilea- to the African surveying vessel; J. H. Murray, to the Rover; Touring to coerce a Board, which might be termed the legis- William Vicery, and William Seaward, to the Coast Guard.. lature of a vast portion of the metropolis, to do an act of io- Masteis—W. Wading (Master) and John Dillon (Secon d justice to a large and influential body of rate-payers. —( No, Mester) to the Cuckoo stearner at Holyhead; John Cate' no, and hear.) He maintained; that it was so. The City of ( Master) to the Medea •; J. W. Barney, to the Co ate London was advancing in improvement every one of their Hmy Webb (Second Master) of the Actaeon, to be Mastert principal thoroughfares, and they (the vestry of Marylebene) Assist - mt. of the Victory ; Thomas Buss, Master' wanted, for the sake of saving a paltry halfpenny in the pound, to the Melville; W. Grindley Master's Assistant, to the pets to retrograde into the absurdities of bygone days. He was, trel. isell however, convinced, if the vestry would allow the parish to be Surgeons—John Park, to the Magnificent; John Rd _ polled, that the votes would be found to greatly preponderate 1 (b.) to the Medea. el Is in favour of retaining Oxford-street in its present state ; and Mates—H. M•Kinsman, to the Royal Adelaide; • that if the votes were taken by plurality, in accordance with Giles, to Donegal •H. G. Austin, to the Hastings. BO the amount of rateable property, there would be at least five- Clerks—R. A. ' Godson, and A. Arlington, to the sixths in favour. Ho repudiated the attempt to pay 17s. sd. burgh. per square yard for granite, when the same work oas at the Naval Instructor—John Gowan, to Hastings. J. Master's Assistane present time being done in St. James's, parish for Bd. per foot. Wtirrant Officers—B. R. Randall, Gunner, to Rover ;the Mr. WILSON seconded the motion, which, on being put was Exeter and J. M'Lennon, Supernumerary Boatsifsinslf g f ,.. n i carried. Victor y , to be Supernumerary Boatswains of the Magn'm— ' Mr. WILSON then rose to move the confirmation of the minute at Portugal. I .„ be of Saturday last, with the exception of the w o r ds "A t t h e ROYAL MARINES—First Lieut. Thomas Fynmore,e—efad discretion of the Surveyor, and that contracts b e e n t ered Ca p tain at Chatham, vice Edward Bathurst, deceased; °e'"-e,,,, into for the purpose of keeping the remainder of the road in Lieut. Thomas T. Ple y dell, to be First Lieut. at t bath repair with granite for the space of one year." It was in con- vice Fynmore. sistent in the first place, to say that from Tottenham-court- (From the Devonport Independent.) . tacit road to Charles-street should be re-paved in accordance with PLYMOUTH, OCT. 6.—Her Majesty's brigantine 9 3 : 1 1 el the specification, and afterwards say at the " discretion of the went out of harbour yesterday (Friday), and will be P 3 '" for Surveyor ;” and secondly, he conceived that it was impossible eanee of wages this day (Saturday), and sail to-raorroW, to form any opinion upon the merits of a pavement in the short i Teneriffe and the Coast of Africa. the space of twelve months. Three years w as, i n his ( Mr. Her Ma j est y 's sloo p Modeste, arrived on Sunday, froM e a Wilson's) opinion, the least time that ought to be allowed to North Coast of S p ain, and was towed into harbour on Igendelg, test any experiment. b y the Pluto steam-vessel, to be fitted with two 32-133°P i t is The motion having been seconded, medium guns, and shell-roams, on a new censtruction. ~ of Mr. KENSETT rose to more an amendment. It would reported that the Rover and Modeste are to have a trial doubtless appear singular that he should be the first to undo their sailing qual.tics as soon as tin.) , are ready. The M°_ ° no that which he had done last Saturday, by moving the non- was taken on the graving slip on Friday, to have her cuPr confirmation of his own motion. 11l feeling upon this ques- cleaned and examined. I, {° tion had run to a great pitch ; . the Vestry were p er p etuall y The Goodwill, li g hter, sailed on Saturday, with 'tots • at war to get the ascendancy, but he hoped they had now hit Portsmouth. : dock upon a plan which would conciliate all parties, and, for the Her Majesty's packet Nightingale, will taken into s a'n first time, command the unanimous vote of the Vestry.— Monday, to be fitted as a depot for the North Coast or E l:s r - t i tle (Hear.) The paviors were anxious to see the granite laid Her Majesty's troop-ship Jupiter, sailedon ThUrSd a y , I° down, and the non-plviors alshed to test the efficacy of the Cove of Cork, to embark the 95th Regt., for Ceylon. _ Re d bitumen and Wood pavement. Upon a conference, it had Her Majesty's steam-vessel Pluto, Lieet. J. Lunn, from been thought better to compromise the m fitter, and for the on Thursday with despatches for the West Indies, anu peace and benefit of the parish, to terminate this almost in- thence she will proceed to the roast of Africa. Falmouth with terminable question.—(Hear, hear.) He objected to Mr. On Monday the Nee d le tender proceeded for ~, „.11 , , Wilson's suggestion to enter into a contract for three years ; supernumeraries ; and the Lollaud, Norwegian brig 01 ' but he bel'eved, if the Vestry wo :Id allo w him to non-con- Capt. Horne, sailed for Cherbourg. sucl firm the minute, the: resolution he would fo llow that p ro- The Seagull will be paid advance of wages on Monday, ceeling up by would inset with the unanimous approbation of sail for Fa n lmouth. the Vestry. In Herolze—Royal Adelaide, 104. Capt. Thomas White' Mr. WILSON said, from what he hvd just heard, he had no . San .1 ssef, 110, Capt. J. N. Tsyler, Rover, 18, Commat er objection to withdraw his motion.—(Hea, hear.) T. W. C. Symonds , Modeste , 18, Commander Harry Er's' Mr. Kensett's amendment was then put as a substantive trio- Pilot, 16, Commander George Ramsey, Grecian, 16, C: tion, and carried unanimously, upon waieb mender William Smyth, Rolla, 10, Li e ut. Charllle Packet, Hall; , Mr. KENSETT moved, " That the surveyor he forthwith in-Seagu Reindeer Packet, Cum. H. P. Dicken; structed to re-pave Oxford-street from Tottsiihem court-road Com. John Parsons. to Charles-street with granite, nine inches deep, reserving to In the Sound—Buzzard, Commander C. Fitzgerald. the Committee now to be appointed power to test, as experi- An order has just been received at this dock-y.ard, fremz the merits, the asphalte, bitumen, and wood pavements, and re Admiralty, relative to the disposal of the shipwrights, v_lee'en port the eflicac) of the same to the Vestry, on the second Sa- . 213 to be employed in the masthouse, boathouse, &c. ; a; 5 0 1 turday in May ut.xt, and that tenders be immediately adver- i repairs of ships ; 60 on new work; the absent, on account tised for the space of one year, to sustain the remainder of , sickness, estimated about 19. the road with broken granite." Mr. DETTMER seconded the motion. Mr. Josseu said, with great pleasure he, fur the first time, rose to support a proposition of his friend Mr. Kerisstt upon this subject, which he could only hail as a •i peac:, offering" between the inhabitants of Oxford-street and the Vestry.— (Hear, hear.) He had all along conceived that both the wood and the bitumen pavements were worthy of a trial, and he had no doubt but the vote on this occasion would be una nimous. We dined in it narrow - 1 ........,..--. d the coMP a " gni ery, an • to t c h o e nsiqed of about 60 or 80 persons. I sat, as usual, vex-, -; whose conversation is always lively and affibla but Ilet." ' __the place is a little nervous, for the dinner is serf ed 6 et , Busse, and the large dishes are always handed rotutd for e 6 t; guest to help himself. It being etiquette that n othing ° it il cred between her Majesty and her next neig hht l'all its that a great fish or an immense piece of beef (all i t you have either to run the risk, - garniture) is presented over ouright shoulder, 116 " ft I d iand, of throwing it over thetiibleorov3er her MajestY, s end °r what is not a little annoying with a good appetite, e.. the dish away. This day, however, I was lucky in by helpingronrself with r el. ' l to being next duced to neither alternative, as the Countess Fouchet sa t i n s - he to me on the other side, and literally took care of me a s hadwou would have done of a child. This Swedish lady (gi b w .just married one of the Duke of Otranto's song, vitt e dish las brother, after Napoleon's fall, entered into the P" e. service. —Lord Londonderry's .Northern Courts 0 . ( l ur e stet . ' A respectable farmer of Newbold, near " --e t of as par to, field, of the name of Wearmouth, is in possession his stock, of two animals of quite different species a nd e ach p. ratnent, a cow and sow, but sun is their attachment "' c ern% other, especially of the former, that she eats, sleeps , n eti t • a king soy notice of her fellow kin*. - Her ladyship only happy but when in compenv of her favourite, not • nt in is at Pr sent ILO the . straw, having a litter of pigs, which has not csion s oble patience Of her brute companion, who manifests con ° at ter anxiety for her re • appearance • ' Gazette. lteeP er On pearance in the farmyard. Saturday morning Mary Pullum, bousel' o w in the family of C. Beaume, Es eof No. 39, in $ square, slipped down stairs and fracture er e d t° 1 severe manner that she was obliged to be remov University C ollege --Doge Mr. LARGE wished to know if all the experiments were to be tried between the space from Tottenham-court-road to Charles-street ? Mr. KENSETT said he should leave that to tile Committee. Mr. LARGE thought the Vestry might bv. misled if the par ticular spot was not named. Mr. G. A. YOUNG thought the Committee ought not to be restricted. He much doubted whether the space between Charles-street and Tottenham-court- road would be sufficient for all the experiments. Mr. WILsoN thought the surveyor could answer that question. Mr. SCAMS (the surveyor) stated that the space proposed was 530 feetin length, and he conceived that would be quite ample to test all the experiments; it would be moroever a better plan to have the specimens altogether than separate. After some further observations, Mr. Kensett consented to the words" that the experiments be tested between the space between Tottenham-court-road to Charles-streeet" being in serted, and one or two other trivial alterations, when The question was put from the chair, and carried by accla mation. Mr. WILLIA.sas then moved that Mr. Stead and the other projectors be written to, which being also carried, the Vestry adjourned. HOP INTELLIGENCE, WORCESTER, OCT. 5. On Saturday last we had 115 pockets of new Hops in our Market, of which 67 were sold at prices varying from 100 s. to 1205., and one flue lot fetched 1285., the quality upon the whole was better than we expected to see, but the Hops were small, and some slightly diseased. The picking will nearly terminate this week, and the crop is found to come down much shorter than expectation, the Hops for the most part being small, the duty, it is supposed, will not exceed 4,0004. We have a short supply of good Hops offered, and as the prices rule too high for speculation, few sales are made, except with immediate consumers, as the appearance o f so strong a blight in the summer induced most persons to get into stock ea , ly, at much less rates than the present quota tions. Prices, per cwt.:—low 1837'4, 665. to 755.; useful, 84s. to 955.; &toiee, 10544 Yearlings, from 504. to 70s.— Worcester Herald. DESSERT FRUIT KNIVES AND F °ll. siwe r Plated 'l n 13 1311 6 Plain Ivory handles, silver ferrules, per dozen pair! . . te . 4 13 1 3 , i 1ad4 ; ' : . ....'c6s l j i g6 .l 0° Caryed ivory handles silver ferrules, per dozen pair 3 4 () i 1 , 2 0 Plain rve, p i e p a e r a l r h l handles, e , ,, i silver lver ferrules, rru s pe p r dozenpa; , r ;i . r . 1 i i : gl4 ° King's pattern or Queen's pattern, ;liver handles ... • ' T. COX SAVORY , r°n ocl 0. Working Gold and Silversmith, 47, Cornhill , '-' (Seven Doors from Gracechurch - s treet. ) Silver Flat . e; N.B. A Pamphlet containing - a list of the prices of .ro Wi n Plated Goods, Watches, Clocks, &c., may be bad grat is ' forwarded in answer to a post-paid application. ._._____--------- ________-- B 1 It Pi I S. ,hales o• Jones, O Esq.,29thnthe of a $ ult ~0 in . Torrington-square, the lady of Pr F o ster On the sth inst at Upton,Esse x , Mrs. Robert nolds, of a son. • , p , . ...Ater, o f s as.r, 01 On the sth Last., in Cork-street, Mrs. Davidson, tbe ' On the sth inst., at Coldharbour House, Fineblel9 James Cugnoni, Esq., of a son and heir. to • 3/, 1 II It IE.D. of let i er' e r f On the Ist inst., William Westren Snell, Esq. , „.. ba S 1 - nll Fanny Amelia Tooze Skinner, eldest daughter a J. of Stam ford' Esq., of the same city. On the 2it inst., at Dorking, Mr. Edward w a lkerb ork ia, f 0 , hill, to Harriot, third daeghter of 3lrs. Skipper, °f i st son °,,,, t p.• On the 3d inst., at Withcall Church, Edward, e l( ee and ' bard ward Tewart, Esq., of York-place, hterPortman-e'r°r a i land Castle, Northumberland, to Mary, eldest dagg Gar th, Dawson, Esq., of Withcall House , Linc olnshire. Al mon li On the 4th inst. , at Leyton , Ess ex, Thom ee LloYd , Esq., of l'ottenham, to Mrs. ttule. of Ley on. vir' st'•liisroe .0 ' (Jr. the 4th inst. , at Brighton, the Rev. Charles pviliu Vicar of Gostield, Essex, to Emily, esagbter et Jt'ho of 61°4- Esq., of Wimpole-street. i Esqi Suit" 0, the 4th inst., at Ham, Wilts, Richard fle•P s ' 1 e e ° ' caster, solicitor, to Harriet, youngest daughter of t ' iter , of ner Smith, Rector of Ham. - u el Po late On the 4th inst., at Henley-on-Thames, Mr. Sa n ; ter of the King-street, Cheapside, solicitor, to Elizabeth, daug° Edward Cook, Esq., of Henley. . ;Neil At Benin River, coast of Africa, the Jun' M r " ' a Smith, su a ' r,.,ton,formerly of Glasgow. tof the la On the 27th ult., at Geist, Norfolk, Sarah, relic rlYj f Edward Deerin s aged 69. , felin e On the 28th ult., aged 50, Conrad Hammar, -.4(1" 14.1:°' Gottenburg. flare, On the sth inst in Upper Gower-street, Dr. ~ uel Bev aged 80. Nfr• S l ' v On '-', •"" 1 i!!st aged el Eliza, the vs:fe a • ~,...---e •,7 , , , .....---, ... irro - , s- , '' . --,.,., :,.;,,r-mills, Wrrriond!cy. --- -• • -• fir 1 lth of 10 , t !,-‘,! , ,n .. Printf,i ~r d P ub? by MTIRDO ' , is t me•G of t " 111 S id t d r l a e l se d st% a -- t 1‘ 1 1 .4 0 . Jul e S a i y " . OctethilebeeCNSQ,.lll6.9l.2B'. Was"' An inquest was held on Friday in Mount-row, B,rkeley-square, on the body of William North, aged 72. Deceased had formerly 13,:en in the service of the Margais Cornwallis. from whose family he received a pension. The old man hal committed suicid • in a very determined manner. Haying made a knot in the end of a curd, he placed the cord over the top of his bedroom don,, shut:ing which the cord was kept fast. He had then formed a noose at the other end, and by bending himself forward effected his pug pass. On the door being op-ned the body felt to the floor. Deceased had lately lost his wife, which preyed greatly on his mind, and had driven him to excessive drinking. Verdict—" Tem porary derangement." DEATH OF THE YANKEE LEAPER.—We have learned with great regret that poor Sam Scott's days are numbered, he having been drowned yesta day aftern , ,on in the (serial at Stroud, wnere he was making an attempt of the same kind as that which he was to exhibit here to• day. A msn and worn ,n who accomdaoied him have been taken in'o custody tilt the ta.sult of the Cor,,ner'a Inquest, which is to be held to-day is ascertained. We hope this tarn •ntable oc cur eace will prevent the public from c o unteninei..:_f by their presence any such rash and foolish attempts. It is evident that there Grif:ht to be some author i ity to regul , te ru , die ex hibitions, so a.‘ to preset alt,gether those which ate danger ous either to the public or to the p,rformers themselves.— Cheltenham Chronicle of Tiac . sday. in WRECK.—On Tuesday last, about two o clock the afternoon, being shortly after low water, a ballast lighter, lying at anchor in the Humber, off Medley's patent slitr_w y, was seen to go down. She was deeply loaded, and for half an hour previous had been seen to go gradually lower in t:,e water forward. After sinking, about fourteen feet of her m , la. remained nut of the water, which was covered by the tide as it ; en tl - ,e ebbing of the water again, not a ce,tig,, wa s to b • seen. it is believed no person was on - board.— Hull Observer. THE SUN, LONDO ~ 1~